I've never really understood Mastodon or the Fediverse in general. Or rather, I've never seen its true utility except for creating even more suffocating and polarized echo chambers. Nothing that we hadn't already seen during the era of forums a few decades ago.

I echo Simone's words here, with which I very much agree. And it's for this reason that blogs still make sense today. Not so much because it's necessary to develop a community around them, but because they are much more effective in stimulating a calm conversation, free from FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), and above all, they force the writer to exercise a certain logic of thought that would otherwise be swept away by the totally instinctive reactions typical of keyboard warriors, as we say in Italy.

the Fediverse idea, albeit interesting on paper, is gloriously showing its main flaw: pretty much all their incarnations are mimicking social media, with all the consequent detrimental effects. Doom scrolling, an infinite series of short burst of personal opinions, usually disconnected from one another. Whether siloed or decentralised, the resulting unsearchable ephemerality is not really different from other mainstream corporate incarnations. Alex wrote much deeper considerations about this very topic, in their post ~The Fediverse and attention economy~.